I was in high school at the time. a bunch of got together and decided to help push people out of the snow ..... for a price $5 each. No pay, no push. We were entrepreneurs or just gready and mean. Anyway, I recall the city shut down. People could not get home from downtown. The city was socked in, to say the least. Most of the time we just "skeeched" (jump a ride on a car by holding onto the bumper or fender - mostly the bumper - without the driver knowing) on cars. Yeah, it was stupid, but we were young and foolish. Once while skeeching a fender, I lost my grip and a car ran over my leg, but i got up and walked away. That was the same year that the tornado hit Oak Lawn High School. It travelled down 87th Street caroming like a cue ball off bumpers. A friend and I were walking his girlfriend home down 83rd Place, when the sky turned green and the birds stopped chirpping. We heard a roar like a train, then it started to pour down rain. We ran to her home. Then, we ran home - a good half mile. As we crossed what was then Ashburn Park, we noticed that the park was strewn with debris. We even saw a piece of straw that penetrated a tree and was sticking out both sides of the tree. If we were crossing when the roar sound occurred, I might be here right now. Shortly after the rain stopped, a bunch of us decided to "appraise" the damage at the Schlitz distributor on 88th/89th and Kedzie. However, the Evergreen Park Police were there doing their own assessment and keeping us from doing anything illegal. The snowstorm of '67 was a major storm and the original Mayor Daley was in charge then. The city was cleaned up in no time. It had to be - all the patronage workers needed to get to their jobs. Nevertheless, the snowstorm of '79 cost Mike Bilandic his job as mayor and Chicago had its only female mayor, Jane Byrne. I was on the El to Randolph and Wabash to take a insurance license test. The Els were jam packed. It seemed to take forever. I believe we got 16" of snow that day. At least we weren't living in Oswego, NY. They have had 10' of snow in the lasst week. Talk about being socked in, whew!!!! Bill Karr in Peoria, IL., USA ----- Original Message ----- From: South Suburban Genealogical & Historical Society <ssghs@usa.net> Date: Friday, February 9, 2007 16:45 Subject: [COOK-CO-IL] Where were you January 26, 1967? To: "COOK-CO-IL@rootsweb.com" <COOK-CO-IL@rootsweb.com> > Do you remember the Chicago Snow Storm January 26, 1967? > > When 23 inches of snow fell on Chicago in less than a day and a > half in > the late winter of 1967 it not only paralyzed the economic life > of a > great city, but also stopped grandpa cold in his tracts in his > boats > about the horrible winters he endured as a boy. Weather > Bureau records > showed definitely that there had been no such snow for more than > 80 years. > The preceding extraction was printed in the January 28, 1968 > issue of > The Illinois Intelligencer as part of Illinois' Sesquicentennial > Celebration. > http://www.illinoishistory.com/deepsnow.htm > > Pictures and related stories about the storm: > http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/wwatch/winter_storms/witnesses.htm > http://www.chipublib.org/004chicago/disasters/snowstorms.html > http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/historic/nws/wea00953.htm > > South Suburban Genealogical & Historical Society is looking for > stories > about the storm of 1967 to include in an upcoming publication. > > Where were you forty years ago on January 26, 1967? Write > a short > paragraph or two about the Snow Storm that hit the Midwest and > what you > did or what happened to your family on that day. Include > your name > (maiden name), where you lived then and where you live > now. Anyone have > a photo you can share? > It's easy and fun! Have a part of your family history preserved. > > Start today by answering these basic questions. Who, what, > where, when > and how. Then make it into a short story. Don't > worry about grammar or > spelling, we'll fix that part. > > Please submit your story and pictures by the end of March 2007 > directly to: > SSGHS@USA.NET > > Thank you! > > South Suburban Genealogical & Historical Society > /Serving south Cook and east Will counties, > Illinois / > / including Chicago's Roseland and Pullman > neighborhoods/ > South Suburban Genealogical & Historical Society Web Site > <http://www.rootsweb.com/%7Essghs> > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to COOK-CO-IL- > request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >